NCOC Re-imposes Country Restrictions Due To New Wave Of COVID-19
The National Command and Operations Center (NCOC) has made mask-wearing mandatory on public transportation nationwide.
In an official statement, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) ordered the public to wear face masks when traveling on planes, trains, and other public transportation. This development follows a sharp increase in COVID-19 cases across the country in recent days.
Earlier today, the NIH confirmed 382 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the national rate of positive coronavirus cases to 2.85%. Last week, the country reported an average of more than 272 coronavirus cases per day.
Last week, Pakistan also discovered the presence of two new subvariants of the Omicron strain of the coronavirus. These subvariants were identified as B.4 and B.5. B.4 and B.5 were first detected in South Africa in January and February of this year, respectively. Both are more contagious than BA.2, the Omicron subvariant known as the “Stealth Omicron”.
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